| Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - 1894 - 1066 ˹éÒ
...failure overleaps the bounds of low success." We may recall, too, the words of a greater poet — " The low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does...with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. The low man goes on adding one to one, His hundred's soon hit ; The high man, aiming at a million,... | |
| Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1896 - 496 ˹éÒ
...not? Worthy of the sepulture to which they bore him so proudly. And this is the moral of the tale :— That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and...knows it. That low man goes on adding one to one, His hundred's soon hit : This high man, aiming at a million, Misses a unit. That has the world here... | |
| Robert Browning - 1856 - 386 ˹éÒ
...Did not he magnify the mind, show clear Just what it all meant ? He would not discount life, as fools do here, Paid by instalment ! He ventured neck or...knows it. That low man goes on adding one to one, His hundred's soon hit : This high man, aiming at a million, Misses an unit. That, has the world here... | |
| 1856 - 538 ˹éÒ
...would not discount life, as fools do here, Paid by instalment! He ventured neck or nothing—heaven's success Found, or earth's failure: " Wilt thou trust...does it: This high man, with a great thing to pursue, His hundred's soon hit: This high man, aiming at a million, Dies ere he knows it. That low man goes... | |
| 1856 - 542 ˹éÒ
...Did not he magnify the mind, shew clear Just what it all meant ? He would not discount life, ns fools do here, Paid by instalment ! He ventured neck or...That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and docs it : This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. That low man goes on adding... | |
| John Nichol - 1860 - 258 ˹éÒ
...passionate heart ; a forlorn hope of all grades and times, failing only because it aimed too high ? '* That low man seeks a little thing to do — Sees it,...with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it." Neither can we, till after a long cycle of events, make success a test of national virtue. Power may... | |
| Museum and English journal of education - 1863 - 576 ˹éÒ
...things well at last. It is in this strain that he has written the close of the Grammarian's funeral : " That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it,...great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. " That has the world here, should he need the next Let the world mind him ; This throws himself on God, and... | |
| Robert Browning - 1866 - 120 ˹éÒ
...Did not he magnify the mind, show clear Just what it all meant ? He would not discount life, as fools do here, Paid by instalment ! He ventured neck or...and does it : This high man, with a great thing to puisne, Dies ere he knows it. That low man goes on adding one to one, His hundred 's soon hit : This... | |
| 1877 - 706 ˹éÒ
...Future. " Our to-days and yesterdays Are the blocks with which we build." As Robert Browning writes, " That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it,...knows it. That low man goes on adding one to one, His hundreds soon hit : This high man aiming at a million, Misses an unit." FRANCES ANNE BUDGE. * "... | |
| Brooke Foss Westcott - 1868 - 460 ˹éÒ
...throw on God, (He loves the burthen) — God's task to make the heavenly period Perfect the earthen That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and...a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it That has the world here — should he need the next, Let the world mind him ! This, throws himself on God,... | |
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